Disgruntled employees can be found throughout many industries. What is really influencing this overarching attitude is the imposition of working in understaffed environments. To have a job is good. Most workers complete their assigned tasks with little rebut. After all, it is that for which they signed on the dotted line. Yet, the overall attitudes of the workers are often viewed, from the standpoint of the workers, as being of subsidiary importance. This lends to perceptions of being disregarded. Coupled with seemingly ludicrous, non-job related requirements, the mold is set for underlying bad attitudes.
There is much angst throughout many industries. Many people are tied to jobs due to pursuit and maintenance of material lifestyles. Families require input of money and time. There is a resultant pressure that many workers internalize. These workers must be on the job. There may be certain job related protocols which fan the flames of discontent. For example, being in situations where restrooms are not within a reasonable proximity. Being told that smoking in one’s car when on company grounds is not allowed. Being placed under overtime mandates. Certain individuals may feel that they have ceded control of their lives to the employing entity.
There is a significant amount of understaffing that many workers are facing. The shortage has been facilitated and exacerbated by the pandemic. Many people have chosen to stay away from employment, per se, and pursue opportunities that are independent of workplace environments. As such, those workers currently employed workers are picking up the the extra load. Sometimes this works well. Still, the work to be done is performed under some duress. Knowing that the number of staff is inadequate does provide some inspiration to complete the work, if only to the required minimum.
Having signed on the dotted line is not prison sentence. There is a socialized desire to have this . . . and that, the latest, the best. Jobs are the vehicle by which the vast many are able to obtain (these) things and to sustain lifestyles, families and possessions. Many have anchored themselves to their various places of employ. Work is necessary. However, work has become an end unto itself. Work becomes a burden when one HAS to work, when environments are understaffed, . . . when rules are perceived as annoyingly intrusive. Work should be a place to work. Not necessarily relax, as tasks must be completed. Nonetheless, additional stress should not be a part of that necessity,
Some job environments have issues that may take a while to be addressed. A long while. This places employees in compromising situations. To perform a task requires that that certain tools be (made) available. Instances of equipment inadequacies do present themselves. Employees perform their various tasks under concession to the availing circumstances. Some employees may feel that the situations that they handle may not be perceived as important (enough to receive attention). The last in line, so to speak, may just be the how some employees view their conditions. There is validity in this take on the matter, although it could be regarded as extreme
The mental health of the worker is linked to the degree of satisfaction that is derived from the job. The majority of people do enjoy their work on some level. Yet there are those individuals that come to work with a sense of something having been lost, something having been taken, . . . something having been surrendered. These workers are functional and do perform well their appointed tasks. Yet, there is the underlying sense having yielded, mentally, to the intangibilities of employment milieu. Most employees can endure this predicament. Others may look for other means of income acquisition. Still, others . . . . . . . ???
Disgruntled workers can be found in various industries. A lot of the upset can be attributed to the perceptions of minimal employer support. Low staffing numbers, equipment needing repair. There are also requirements that are placed on workers that have nothing to do with the specified job task. Class mandates, requirement changes for tasks (that are) tied to bonuses, overtime requests (this is a personal issue for me). I have heard tale of housekeeping staff actually finding human waste wrapped in underwear in bathroom stalls. This is definitely the action of a disgruntled worker.
This is not an advertisement for boycotting work . . . . per se. This is more of a personal assessment of how jobs overtake the lives of most individuals. Whether they know it or not, most people are tied to their jobs because of lifestyle decisions. By taking a spouse, acquiring the accoutrements associated marriage, children. Society instills the need to have family and to buy things. It does not promote exploring of personal, inner space. The knowledge of self, devoid of societal trappings, is, in many instances, viewed as a foreign concept. The surface is taken as ‘where it’s at’!!! Thus, the tangibility of the job and what it can afford is an accepted norm. This is the case even if the job conditions bring about internal struggle and discontent.
LINKS:
Ab-Sutra Wellness and Fitness 